Sebastiaan van Stijn 4708e0d609 Deprecate legacy overlay storage driver ...

The `overlay` storage driver is deprecated in favor of the `overlay2` storage
driver, which has all the benefits of `overlay`, without its limitations (excessive
inode consumption). The legacy `overlay` storage driver will be removed in a future
release. Users of the `overlay` storage driver should migrate to the `overlay2`
storage driver.

The legacy `overlay` storage driver allowed using overlayFS-backed filesystems
on pre 4.x kernels. Now that all supported distributions are able to run `overlay2`
(as they are either on kernel 4.x, or have support for multiple lowerdirs
backported), there is no reason to keep maintaining the `overlay` storage driver.

Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
(cherry picked from commit 8bc2aa45a6)
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
Upstream-commit: aa6314c663
Component: cli

2018-10-17 18:03:57 +02:00

components/cli

Deprecate legacy overlay storage driver

2018-10-17 18:03:57 +02:00

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